Universidad de Londres

An Analysis of Transformations

Summary In the analysis of data it is often assumed that observations y 1, y 2, …, yn are independently normally distributed with constant variance and with expectations specifi...

A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS?

This article discusses: the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as ‘new public management’(NPM); the intellectual provenance of those ideas; explanations for their app...

The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?

Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities

Abstract Stochastic substitution, the Gibbs sampler, and the sampling-importance-resampling algorithm can be viewed as three alternative sampling- (or Monte Carlo-) based approa...

How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research? A critical perspective

Systematic review has developed as a specific methodology for searching for, appraising and synthesizing findings of primary studies, and has rapidly become a cornerstone of the...

Sugar and Disease

A Preliminary Study of the Transmission Dynamics of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the Causative Agent of AIDS

The paper describes some preliminary attempts to formulate simple mathematical models of the transmission dynamics of HIV infection in homosexual communities. In conjunction wit...

Trying to stop smoking: Effects of perceived addiction, attributions for failure, and expectancy of success

TASK DIFFICULTY AND TASK PERFORMANCE IN AUTISTIC CHILDREN

SUMMARY The study was designed to examine the effects on the performance of autistic children of varying the cognitive demands being made upon the children. The Board Form of th...

Integrating children's services in England: national evaluation of children's trusts

Abstract Background Poor co‐ordination of services can have severe consequences for disadvantaged children with complex needs. Since 2003 national and local governments in Engla...